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Valor Friday

| March 15, 2024 | 7 Comments
Valor Friday

Last week I briefly mentioned Ruben Rivers. Let’s dive deeper into the amazing legacy of the man. Rivers was born in rural central Oklahoma in 1918 as one of eleven children. Half-black and half-Cherokee, Rivers and his siblings grew up working the family farm. He worked for the railroad before enlisting with two of his […]

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Music artists and panelists canceled appearance due to US Army sponsorship

| March 14, 2024 | 38 Comments
Music artists and panelists canceled appearance due to US Army sponsorship

South by Southwest Festival brings in music artists and panelists as well as those who listen to them. However, for this year’s event, there were appearance cancellations from over 80 music artists and multiple panelists. These individuals had issues with the U.S. Military’s support for Israel’s war effort against Hamas. Governor Greg Abbort basically said […]

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West Point gets rid of “Duty, Honor, Country”

| March 13, 2024 | 85 Comments
West Point gets rid of “Duty, Honor, Country”

The Long Grey Line removed “Duty, Honor, Country” from their mission statement this week. It was replaced with “Army Values.” The three words were made the official motto for the US Military Academy at West Point more than 100 years ago. It was adopted as part of the school’s official coat of arms in 1898. […]

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Valor Friday

| March 8, 2024 | 6 Comments
Valor Friday

Army Times is reporting on one of the latest uses of new media for the Army. A comic book is being made by the service that highlights the unimaginable bravery of Staff Sergeant Ruben Rivers. I’ll be taking a deep dive into Sergeant Rivers for a proper Valor Friday piece next week. Here’s a bit […]

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The US Army is revamping its force structure to deal with future wars

| February 29, 2024 | 39 Comments
The US Army is revamping its force structure to deal with future wars

The U.S. Army is planning to cut thousands of jobs, by up to 24,000, as it moves to restructure in anticipation for the next major war. However, the Army says that this will not involve actual service members being asked to leave. Instead, billets that are not filled will be cut, such as unfilled billets […]

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Bogus flag, bogus vet

| February 28, 2024 | 136 Comments
Bogus flag, bogus vet

A vet named Michael Greenwalt donated an American flag to the Antioch, CA  Historical Society Museum nine years back. It began with a gesture meant to commemorate the end of the Vietnam War, as Michael Greenawalt, a 60-year-old Army veteran, donated what was believed to be one of the last American flags to leave Vietnam, […]

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Remembering Chief Warrant Officers Bryan Andrew Zemek and Derek Joshua Abbott: Fallen Heroes in Mississippi – AI Guest Post

| February 27, 2024 | 6 Comments
Remembering Chief Warrant Officers Bryan Andrew Zemek and Derek Joshua Abbott: Fallen Heroes in Mississippi – AI Guest Post

How good is Microsoft Bing’s ChatGPT when generating articles? I pulled up the “copilot” for Microsoft Edge and plugged in some prompts. Out came the below article on the two Soldiers who died in a helicopter crash in Mississippi… Sans APA formatted references. How did AI do with “writing” the below article? Right on target? […]

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Valor Friday

| February 23, 2024 | 4 Comments
Valor Friday

I’ve talked several times about multi-war veterans. Some of those have earned valor awards for gallantry in action in service spanning several decades. Pascal Poolaw was one such man. You’ll recall he earned four Silver Stars and three Purple Hearts. He did so across three different wars, earned a Silver Star and Purple Heart in […]

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